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then noam chomsky visits gaza. >> it is kind of amazing and inspiring to see people managing somehow to survive, essentially as caged animals, subjected to constant random, says district -- sadistic punishment only to humiliate them. all of that and more coming up. >> this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. president obama will open deficit reduction talks friday with a call for one point -- $ 1.6 trillion tax hike on corporations and the wealthiest americans in the next 10 years. the figure is double the total offered by house republicans during masters debt talks. on tuesday, democrats signaled they would reject republican calls to preserve the bush tax cuts for top earners in exchange for removing deductions. it is unclear if obama will revive his previous willingness to raise the retirement age to 67 and cap benefit hikes under social security. obama and house speaker john boehner are due to begin negotiations friday on averting the so-called fiscal cliff of expiring tax cuts and automatic spending reductions set to take effect at th
then noam chomsky visits gaza. >> it is kind of amazing and inspiring to see people managing somehow to survive, essentially as caged animals, subjected to constant random, says district -- sadistic punishment only to humiliate them. all of that and more coming up. >> this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. president obama will open deficit reduction talks friday with a call for one point -- $ 1.6 trillion tax hike on...
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chomsky it's chris hedges it's multiple other human rights activists and journalists worldwide and yep according to protocol one article seventy nine of the geneva convention it's a war crime to target journalists and dropping white phosphorus on an open air prison is also a war crime lastly it let's talk about what the word terrorism really means the definition is the systematic use of terror often violent especially as a means of coersion so by that definition israel not responsible for terrorizing palestinians with house demolitions unwarranted arrests torture checkpoints psychological warfare in detention but let's backtrack for a second who is behind alger minor dot com who is said such nice things about me well i did a little digging its parent company is a jewish media organization called the gershon jacobson jewish continuity foundation some of the benefactors of the foundation include the israeli ministry of tourism and israel bombs and it has been endorsed by senator joe lieberman york mayor michael bloomberg as well as gabrielle a shallow of the permanent representative of i
chomsky it's chris hedges it's multiple other human rights activists and journalists worldwide and yep according to protocol one article seventy nine of the geneva convention it's a war crime to target journalists and dropping white phosphorus on an open air prison is also a war crime lastly it let's talk about what the word terrorism really means the definition is the systematic use of terror often violent especially as a means of coersion so by that definition israel not responsible for...
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chomsky it's chris hedges it's multiple other human rights activists and journalists worldwide and yep according to protocol one article seventy nine of the geneva convention it's a war crime to target journalists and dropping white phosphorus on an open air prison is also a war crime lastly it let's talk about what the word terrorism really mean.
chomsky it's chris hedges it's multiple other human rights activists and journalists worldwide and yep according to protocol one article seventy nine of the geneva convention it's a war crime to target journalists and dropping white phosphorus on an open air prison is also a war crime lastly it let's talk about what the word terrorism really mean.
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of executive director the workers' rights concert so welcome thank you very glad to have you with us noam chomsky pointed out that the slogan relatively official slogan of the republican party during the lincoln era when it was the anti-slavery party was. quote we were against chattel slavery and wage slavery free people do not rent themselves to others and quote what happened to americans understanding that chattel slavery the the jefferson owned the slave and wage slavery what were seen in bangladesh were for a long time in america viewed as such the same thing well unfortunately this notion that if you have a job you should if i'm lucky to have the job and not complain about your wages and working conditions has become a widespread notion in our era and it serves to rationalize extraordinarily abusive labor practices particularly by u.s. multinational corporations like wal-mart and gap overseas where they now make virtually all of their clothing and other goods so what's wal-mart says that this was a rogue supplier that that was supply and you know that was running this factory. do you
of executive director the workers' rights concert so welcome thank you very glad to have you with us noam chomsky pointed out that the slogan relatively official slogan of the republican party during the lincoln era when it was the anti-slavery party was. quote we were against chattel slavery and wage slavery free people do not rent themselves to others and quote what happened to americans understanding that chattel slavery the the jefferson owned the slave and wage slavery what were seen in...
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chomsky. for hours and hours and hours and then i punctuate with some pithy one liners thinking balance it out of it down to let's talk about the four horsemen the what are the four horsemen first of all telephone book of revelation what we want to do is hang the story of the big story that's kind of impressed consciousness in the comic which is so full. from today's four horsemen replaces financial system escalating organized ones because terrorism is too narrowly defined it's not true resources being depleted depletion of us natural capital and poverty for the bottom billions which is famine and they're converging those mega trends are converging at a time this never happened before in human history and as they converge we have to head them off so what we do in the film is look at why the converging explain why that's happening and then it's not a message of known hope it's a message full of hope because we for the first time ever have the ability and the favorable conditions to be able to h
chomsky. for hours and hours and hours and then i punctuate with some pithy one liners thinking balance it out of it down to let's talk about the four horsemen the what are the four horsemen first of all telephone book of revelation what we want to do is hang the story of the big story that's kind of impressed consciousness in the comic which is so full. from today's four horsemen replaces financial system escalating organized ones because terrorism is too narrowly defined it's not true...
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and sunday with noam chomsky. right now we're in chicago. as the most expensive presidential election in u.s. history as come to an end, we turn to an issue that impacts more and more people in this country, but was rarely mentioned during the campaign -- poverty. the price tag for combined spending by federal candidates -- along with their parties and outside groups like super pacs -- totaled more than $6 billion. this is especially striking at a time when one in six americans is poor, with over 16 million children living in poverty. poverty rates for blacks and latinos are twice as high as the rates for whites. there is greater poverty among women than men, and the rate of women living in extreme poverty has reached record highs. a study released by fair revealed poverty is an issue that has been nearly invisible in u.s. media coverage of the 2012 presidential race. it found just 17 of the 10,489 campaign stories studied -- 0.2% -- addressed poverty in any substantive way. critics have pointed out president obama was viewed as the anti-pov
and sunday with noam chomsky. right now we're in chicago. as the most expensive presidential election in u.s. history as come to an end, we turn to an issue that impacts more and more people in this country, but was rarely mentioned during the campaign -- poverty. the price tag for combined spending by federal candidates -- along with their parties and outside groups like super pacs -- totaled more than $6 billion. this is especially striking at a time when one in six americans is poor, with...
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>> well, noam chomsky, and i'm a great admirer of chomsky has made that compares sin. i think in some ways, yes. it's always difficult to make those historical analogies because one has to be very cognizant of the major differences including the massive war reparations, the defeat of world war i, the fact that germany had no real liberal democracy under its monarchy. but i think that there are some frightening similarities, the most important improvisation of the american working class. the disenfranchisement of working men and women. you know, used to be in this country going back to the 50s, into the 60s that you could work in an auto plant or still mail and make a salary that was supportive family family and a life device and send their kids to college and you have medical benefits and a pension plan and all of that is vanished. though we have thruster working class into the sector economy, low-wage economy, households. not only do people tend to work in the working class more than one job, but almost everybody in the house is working in order to keep afloat. that h
>> well, noam chomsky, and i'm a great admirer of chomsky has made that compares sin. i think in some ways, yes. it's always difficult to make those historical analogies because one has to be very cognizant of the major differences including the massive war reparations, the defeat of world war i, the fact that germany had no real liberal democracy under its monarchy. but i think that there are some frightening similarities, the most important improvisation of the american working class....